Monday Night Music - Alanis Morisette, Beastie Boys, And Rage Against The Machine Do Letterman

Welcome back to Monday Night Music!

If you don’t know what I’m trying to do with Monday Night Music as a blog series, basically, I’m just throwing three random live performances out there per week for y’all to enjoy on a Monday night, with not a ton of rhyme or reason behind the choices. They’re not a top three, or a countdown of any sort…just some great live acts doin’ their thing on stage.

Feel free to comment below with some of your favorites, or send future recommendations over to me on Twitter!

Tonight’s three are the first to actually carry a theme, and that’s the Late Show w/ David Letterman! All selections’ll come from performances on that show. So without further ado…

Alanis Morisette – You Oughta Know (Live from the Late Show w/ David Letterman 1995)

If you know me, you know that Alanis Morisette is one of my favorite artists ever, and that ‘Jagged Little Pill’ is an easy top ten album of all time in my book. This is one of her best scene-breaking performances of ‘You Oughta Know’ with Taylor Hawkins on drums (before he left her for the Foo Fighters).

Beastie Boys – Sabotage (Live from the Late Show w/ David Letterman 1994)

For my money, probably the greatest performance in the history of Letterman. Beastie Boys are just ON TOP OF THE WORLD here, and as YouTube’s top comment puts it, they put on “a masterpiece on how to rock a single chord.?”

Rage Against The Machine – Guerilla Radio (Live from the Late Show w/ David Letterman 1999)

Here’s Rage Against The Machine rocking the ever loving shit outta my favorite song of theirs, Guerilla Radio, out in the rain on 53rd Street. ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ is another one of my favorite albums, where the tone on Tim Commerford’s bass is nothing less than perfection, and each tune goes harder than the last. Nobody got a crowd moving quite like Rage.

God damn, the 90’s had some MUSIC, huh?!